Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

[Tim Pozar <pozar () lns com>]

Most of these horns are for 6GHz.  I have had friends that have
"appropriated" some of them by adding a waveguide to N adapter and use
them for the 5.8GHz ISM band with some minor aiming.  Kick ass antenna gain.

Tim

On 7/14/18 4:37 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Looks like it!
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Tim Pozar <pozar () lns com>
> Date: 7/14/18 11:46 AM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Andy Ringsmuth <Andy () newslink com>, North American Network
> Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers
>
> Did it follow this route?
>
> http://long-lines.net/places-routes/maps/MW6003.jpg
>
> Tim
>
> On 7/14/18 8:41 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
> > > On Jul 14, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Brian Kantor <Brian () ampr org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I find myself driving down Route 66.  On our way through Arizona, I
> was surprised by what look like a lot of old-style microwave links. 
> They pretty much follow the East-West rail line - where I'd expect
> there's a lot of fiber buried.
> > > Could they be a legacy of the Southern Pacific Railroad Internal
> Network Telecommunications,
> > > now known under the acronym SPRINT?
> > > - Brian
> >
> > Not along Route 66 in Arizona. That generally parallels BNSF Railway,
> formerly the Santa Fe down there. Southern Pacific followed Interstate
> 10 much further south.
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